b'POLITICSWoodrow Wilson and the Negros TheChronologicalHistoryofTheHe wrote: "Wilson will not be ourU.S."American Congress. Bills advocated Negro in America by Peter M. Bergman friend, but he will not belong to theUponwinningthePresidentialsegregationonpublictransporta-gang of which Tillman, Vardaman,tion in Washington, D.C.; the exclu-from the Publishers Library Hoke Smith and Blease are the bril- election, Wilson\'s first Congress sentsion of Negroes from Army and Navy liant expositors. He will not advancetotheAdministrationthegreatestcommissions.Separateaccommo-flood of bills proposing discrimina-1 912 There were three Presidentialthecauseofanoligarchyinthetory legislation against Negroes thatdations for Negro and white federal candidates:WoodrowWilson,aSouth.Hewillnotseekfurtherhadeverbeenintroducedintoanemployees, and the exclusion of all Democrat, born in the South, wouldmeans of Jim Crow insult, he willNegro immigration.make only the vaguest concessionsnotdismissblackmenwholesale toNegroes.WilliamHowardTaft,fromoffice,andhewillremem-a Democrat, had thoroughly alien- berthattheNegro.hasaright atedNegroes.TheodoreRoosevelt,tobeheardandconsidered,and aRepublican,whileappealingtoifhebecomesPresident,bythe NegrovotersintheNorth,hadgraceoftheblackman\'svote,his refused to seat Negro delegates fromDemocratic successors may be more the South at the Progressive Partywilling to pay the black man\'s price Convention.Roosevelthadalsoofdecenttravel,freelabor,votes allowed Southern whites to excludeand education". Wilson also gained theNAACP\'splatformamendmentthesupportoftheNAACP,the calling for the repeal of unfair dis- NationalIndependentLeagueand criminatory laws and the completetheColoredNationalDemocratic enfranchisement of Negroes.League.Wilsonfirstformalstate-W.E.B.DuBoiswithdrewfrommentsontheNegroes,thathe theProgressivePartytosupportwishedtosee"justicedonetothe Woodrow Wilson. Du Bois\' rational- colored people in every matter; and izationforsupportingWilsonwasnot mere grudging justice, but jus-that while Wilson was a Virginian,tice with liberality and cordial good and was a long time president of afeeling."Wilsonfurtherstated;"I collegewhichdidnotadmitNegrowant to assure them (the Negroes) students,WilsonwasacultivatedthatshouldIbecomePresidentof scholarandthereforeDuBoisfeltthe U.S., They may count on me for thatWilsonwouldtreattheNegroabsolute fair dealing, for everything and his interests withfairness.by which I could assist in advanc-ing the interests of their race in the 12 MAY 2022 BOCNEWS.com'